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Apr. 3, 1923 J. S. YOUNG ET AL CASTER Original 7 Filed Mar.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN SIMON YOUNG, DECEASED, LATE OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, BY EDWARD W.

YOUNG, ADMINISTRATOR, or LOS YOUNG AND JOHN L. scnEcnER, or

ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, AND EDWARD W. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNORS 'I'O JOHN I4. SCHECHEB, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

CASHIER.

Original No. 1,301,777, dated April 22, 1919, Serial No. 157,758, filed March 27, 1917. Application (01' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD W. YOUNG and JOHN L. SCHECHER, citizens of the United States, residing at Los Angeles in 5 the county of Los Angeles and State of dalifornia, and JOHN SIMON YOUNG, deceased, late a citizen of the United States and resident of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have jointly invented new and useful Improvements in Casters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to casters, and more particularly to casters for beds and other furniture. The invention has for its object to provide an improved caster of the general nature stated which will prevent the bed or other pieces of furniture equipped with casters, organized in accordance with the inven' tion, from coming into contact with the walls of a room or closet to this end each caster is provided with a buffer which projects beyond other caster features an'd preferably beyond the bed or other piece of furniture mounted on the caster.

The invention has for a further object to provide an improved caster which will be superior in point of relative simplicity and inexpensiveness of construction and organization, taken in consideration with the advantages of use, and sightliness in appearance, and which will be generally superior in efliciency and serviceability.

This invention is disclosed in another application for U. S. patent filed by us November 17, 1915, Serial No. 61,889, for folding beds, of which this application is a division.

WVith the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel and useful provision, construction, formation, combination and inter-relation of parts, members and features, all as hereinafter described, shown in the drawing and finally pointed out in claims.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a central vertical sectional view of a caster constructed and organized in accordance with the invention, parts being in elevation for clearness of illustration; and

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view reislue filed July 1; 1920. Serial No. 393,452.

taken on the line av -m Fig. 1, and looking downwardly.

Corresponding parts in both the figures are designatedby the same reference characters.

Referring with particularity to the drawing, in the form of the invention therein shown, A designates a caster frame member, B designate'sa roller member, C designates a foot or corner'member of a folding bed with which the casteris shown as associated, means between the foot C and the frame member A. The frame member A preferably comprises in integral construction a yoke 3, a'depending fur'cation 4, and a depending furcation 5. ably provided with an annular groove 6 concentric with a pivot pin 7 which is shown as uniting the frame member yoke 3 with the foot C, the pivot pin 7being shown as a and D designates anti-friction The yoke is preferu rivet passedthrou'gh a horizontal flange 7" provided on the foot C and through a bore 8 provided in the yoke 3.

A buffer member 9 is applied to the yoke 3 of the frame member A, such yoke 3 being formed with an annular outer wall 10 over which the buffer is fitted, the buffer member 9 being annular in form and preferably constructed of rubber, felt or other yielding material. The buffer member 9 may be secured in position by rivets 11 each passed through a suitable bore 12 provided in the buffer member and through a suitable bore 13 provided in the annular side walls of the yoke member. The buffer member 9 may be counterbored as at 1 1 to accommodate heads 15 on the rivets 11. Such counter-bores permit of the buffer member 9 yielding, due to impact, without permitting the rivet heads to contact with the walls of a room or furniture therein.

The roller B is conventionally shown as a cylinder 16 of suitable material, such as wood or the like, and mounted to rotate 'upon a pin or rivet 17 passed through the portion 7 of the foot C, the frame member A and the foot being assembled as by heading over the rivet 7 as at 7 and 7.

The circular yoke 3 preferably slightly overhangs the 'furcations 4 and 5, and as such "furcat'ions are slightly angularly related to" the yoke 3,"the' rivet 7 is pos'itione'd at one side of the rivet 17 or pivotal axis of the roller or cylinder 16, so that upon shifting the bed to which the caster is applied, the pivot pin or rivet 7 will lead the roller, the caster turning so as to follow the bed and presenting a portion of the buffing annulus or member 9 to a wall which Otherwise would be struck or contacted with bythe bed or features thereof.

It is manifest that many changes and l variations may be made in departing from thespecific disclosure herein without de arting from the spirit of the invention an the terms of the following claims.

4 Having thus, disclosed our invention, we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A caster including a yoke member formed with annular side walls and a to having an annular raceway therein, antifriction balls loose within the raceway, a pivot pin extending upwardly from the top at the center of the raceway, integral furcations projecting downwardly from opposite sides of the yoke, a roller j ournaled between the furcations, and a buffer ring extending around'the annular side walls of the yoke and;- projecting on three sides beyond the roller and yoke. V

2. A caster including a yoke member tween said members,

formed with a top having an annular race way therein, anti-friction devices within said raceway, a pivot pin providing a vertical axis and uniting said caster with a supported object, furcations: projecting "downbuffer adapted for presentation to contacting objects forwardly of said roller and revoluble about the vertical pivtotal axis with the rollerand its yoke as the roller is led by the'supported object in the movement thereof.

8. A caster including a yoke member, a thrust member formed upon a supported object, anti friction devices interposed bethere being means of pivotal connection between said members and whereby a verticalaxis is provided, a roller rotatable about a horizontal axis lying behind the vertical axis supporting said yoke, and a buffer extending beyond the forward or leading edge of the supported object and adapted for contact with adjacent objects.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses,

EDWARD W. YOUNG, Administrator of the Estate of J 07m Simon Y0ung, deceased.

EDWARD WV. YOUNG. JOHN L. SCHECHER. \Vitnesses:

ALFRED H. DAEHLER, F RANCIS L. ISGRIGG. 

